Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lists. Show all posts

Friday, May 18, 2018

Ranker - Vote On Everything

Hi All,

A few days ago I came across a website called Ranker.  The site bills itself as a place for people to 'vote on everything'. 

What exactly is Ranker you ask? Good question, it is a leading digital media company for opinion-based, crowdsourced rankings on just about everything. They advertise that about 50 million people have generated over 300 million votes.

Okay..that all said here's the meat of the site.  They have dozens of lists (ranks) on topics like 'people', 'entertainment', 'sports', 'culture', 'channels' and 'videos'..

Typing in a phrase in the search box at the top right of the screen results in a list of results related to the search.  Lists with the most number of votes are ranked at the top of the screen.

For example, a search for 'puppies' and a list of 'The Cutest Mixed Dog Breeds' appears.   Other lists included 'Cutest Black Lab Pictures' and 'Cutest Boy Puppy Names'.  Pictures appear in each list and a brief narrative is included as well.

The number of votes that the pictures received is listed as well. 

Check out the site for some very entertaining and enlightening lists!

Enjoy the site!

Regards,
Stu










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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Being More Productive

Hi All,

As longtime readers of this blog probably know by now I really, really like lists.  Shopping lists, to do lists, lists of books, lists of all kinds.!

I just came across this site on MSN Lifestyle.  The title of the webpage is 28 Productivity Hacks to Make Your Work Day Easier.  I was struck by the simplicity and intuitive advice in this slideshow.  Plus, many of these efficiency hacks are easy to implement and use regularly.

Take a look at the article by clicking here.  Who knows...even picking up 2 or 3 of these tricks will help you become more productive and more efficient!

Also...interested readers might want to click on any of the next 3 links to learn even more about becoming more productive in daily life and at work.  Enjoy the links and your new found efficiency.

5 Productivity Hacks That Will Change Your Life - Happier.com

10 Mini-Productivity Hacks to Ease Your Life - Lifehack.org


23 Best Productivity Hacks of the Year - Inc.com

Regards,
Stu

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Halfway Point in 2015: Mid-Year Reviews

Hi All,

I can't believe it.  The halfway point in 2015 is just about here.  Tonight is the halfway point - which means that we still have half a whole year left.

Mid-points are a good time to summarize where we've been - and where we're going to go in the next six months of the year...forthwith, a whole bunch of useful sites that will help you chart the future six months of 2015 on a whole host of personal topics!

The website Generation X Finance  (which bills itself as 'Helping a Unique Generation Achieve Financial Independence) has an article title, 'How to Do a Mid-Year Financial Checkup - Things to Think About This Summer'  Important parts of the article include reviewing goals, progress and your taxes and, believe it or not, saving for Christmas 2015...

Lifehack.org has an article titled, 'How to Do a Personal Mid-Year Review?'  Three parts of this article were notable: Making a list of everything that you feel proud of over the past six months, making a list of any new goals or challenges (and noting any progress) that you taken on over the last six months and identifying areas of your life that you'd like to focus on over the next six months seems particularly poignant, relevant and helpful. 

Career Realism (whose tagline is 'Because Every Job is Temporary') has an article titled, '10 Questions to Ask Yourself Today'.  This short article is divided into 2 sections, 'Look-Back Questions' and 'Look-Forward Questions'.  Some salient points from each include thinking about  key accomplishments, mistakes made, time management, top 3 personal goals, learning and knowledge and relationship development.  How did you do on the last point?

Finally, from the Huffington Post comes this article, titled, 'Time For a Personal Mid-Year
Review: This is How! (What We Can Learn From Business)' This article gives the writer in all of us something to do. For example, the article suggests that we:
1. Write down the goals that you had set yourself at the beginning of the year.
2. Write down how you have 'performed' in these categories.
3. For each category, write down one or two of the biggest challenges you have had...
5. Write down in a maximum of two sentences how you wish to achieve open goals on your list.

As you can see there is a lot of writing and thinking...but it will help you get more proactive and engaged in your mid-year life review.  

While we are at the half-way point in the year...there are 180 days left to achieve those goals that you've set down!  You can do it! (Click here for a list of motivational quotes from BrainyQuote.com.

Enjoy the links - and good luck on your goals, aspirations, hopes and dreams.

Regards,
Stu

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Johnny Lists

Hi All,

Bet you never heard of the site, 'Johnny Lists'.  Well, me neither, Until today. I did a search for 'daily surveys' using Google and on the second or third page 'Johnny Lists' came up. And so I investigated this little gem of a site.

So, what exactly is 'Johnny Lists' you ask? Good question.  Basically "these are lists - posted almost daily - to improve your life and your knowledge."  Interesting premise so I went further.

The first set of lists was '10 Websites You Should Bookmark' - which includes sites like Productchart.com (an interactive product comparison site), all-free-download.com (a download resource for designers), mealdb.com (best restaurants and cafes nearby), pizzacodes.com (coupon codes for your local pizza store) and scr.im (convert your email address to share safely and openly)

Another interesting list was titled, '8 Websites to Teach You Random Knowledge'.  With links like sporcle.com, mentalfloss.com, nowiknow.com and factoclock.com there's always something to learn on the site.

Titles of other lists include '7 Amazingly Unique Items To Help You Get Around', 'How to Control Your Temper', and '12 Free Things For Students' and many more.

Users can subscribe to Johnny Lists by email (click link),  find Johnny Lists Most Popular Posts to Date and look in a Johnny List archive that goes back to at least May 2014. 

Note that the archive is just a smaller version of the individual webpages.  It might sound odd, but its a very clever way to see many posts on one page.  Users can click on each page and the title of each page is easily seen.  Smart idea.

Finally, readers should note that Johnny Lists is pretty much a black and white interface.  No graphics and has a sparse look to it.  But - and this is a big but (but a good one) - the site is very user-friendly and intuitive to use.

Finally, readers can click on this link, to find books about lists in the library card catalog.  The subject of this search was 'organizing lists' and I narrowed down the results to items held in the Farmingdale Public Library circulating collection of material

Enjoy the links, the lists and the books!

Regards,
Stu

Friday, December 19, 2014

End of the Year Lists - Part I

Hi All,

So we have 12 days left until the new year comes around.  2015 here we come!  With that in mind, lots of news sources and outlets come out with various 2014 lists.  Here are some of the highlights (and hopefully the best - or at least the most interesting) of these lists. 

And please note, there just might be a second part to this entry since there are so many interesting lists available on the web. Stay tuned for the next episode!!!

Science Announces 2014's Top 10 Breakthroughs
PC Mag - 10 Best Desktops
PC Mag - 10 Best Laptops
TechRadar - 10 Best Tablet PCs in the World Today
Car and Driver - Editors' Choice Awards 2014 - Best Cars, Trucks, Crossovers and More.
Gayot - Top 10 Fall Beers
Wine Spectator - Top 10 Wines Revealed
National Geographic - Best Winter Trips 2014
Vogue - Top Ten TV Shows of 2014
IMDB - Highest Rated TV Series Released in 2014
Mother Jones - Best Books of 2014 (Fiction and Non-fiction)
Washington Post - 10 Best Books of 2014
Yahoo! News - Yahoo's Top 10 News Searches of 2014
Washington Times - Celebrity Deaths in 2014
Bing Link to People, Moments, and Events That Shaped 2014.
CNN - What You Really Googled in 2014

Enjoy the links - and stay tuned for part two of this list in the coming days!

Regards,
Stu



Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Hi All,

I just came across an interesting article from an old email about memory and how to remember things.  The article is called 'US Memory Champions Share Expert Techniques For Remembering Anything' and was posted by BusinessInsider.com on July 25th, 2014.  (For another article about memory click on this link - this article was from this blog back in July as well.)

Here are a few other links from the web on how to remember various names, lists, projects, etc that you might come across during daily life.

How to Improve Your Memory? - HelpGuide.org
How to Improve Your Memory, InstantlyPsychologyToday.com   awesome article - and it works

Click on this link - which goes to the library online card catalog for the subject of 'memory'. Also, the link lists items that only the Farmingdale Public Library owns - not other libraries.

Enjoy the articles and sites.

Regards,
Stu

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Hi All,

Keep It Simple, Stupid (the KISS principle).  Well, I'm not a fan of the last word in that overly used phrase, but there is a method to that madness. Simplicity is elegant.  Just click on this link for proof of that statement.

And with that said...click on this link from Yahoo! Tech for an article entitled '5 Hacks to Make Your Tech Life Easier'  Hacks or tricks include ways to simplify computer cabling, ways to make your smartphone louder, and more.

Click on these three links for more ways to make your life easier:
Finances - 8 Ways to Simplify Your Finances - Huffington Post 
Home Organization - Organizing a Garage - Simplify Your Life With 8 Checklists - MyHomeIdeas.com
Food Storage - How to Organize Your Refrigerator Drawers and Shelves? - Real Simple

Finally, click on these links for ways to keeping your life simple...
7 Rules That Keep My Life Simple
12 Ways to Keep Life Simple
10 Ways to Keep Life Simple
4 Ways to Simplify Your Life

Enjoy the links! Hope they simplify your life!

Regards,
Stu

Monday, September 15, 2014

Hi All, 

Good morning.  Today is the first day of the second full week of school for school kids in and around the Farmingdale area.  Some might have started later or earlier making this not exactly the first day of the second full week of school...but close enough.

Anyway, with school in session, brains are starting to go into overdrive and hum with reading, writing and arithmetic. Yep - the fall semester is underway and getting into full swing.

With that all said, I found an interesting website to help get those brain waves moving and jumping and hopping - all in the hopes that school will be easier. 

Introducing...Mental Floss...so, you ask...what exactly is Mental Floss?  Great question. The site bills itself as "an intelligent read, but not too intelligent. We're the sort of intelligent that you hang out with for a while, enjoy our company, laugh a little, smile a lot and then we part ways. Great times. And you only realize how much you learned from us after a little while. Like a couple days later when you're impressing your friends with all these intriguing facts and things you picked up from us, and they ask you how you know so much, and you think back on that great afternoon you spent with us and you smile."

If you really, really want to learn more about Mental Floss, click on this link which takes you to the 'About Us' page on the site. 

That all said, there are 5 links that appear on the top banner of the page.
1. Amazing Facts - the Amazing Fact generator generates, well, amazing facts...fun stuff. In a flash card sort of way.  

2. Big Questions - answer the 'big questions' in life like 'Why Do Shells Sound Like the Ocean?' and 'Why Are Baseball Seasons 162 Games Long?' and more...

3. Videos - lots of videos hosted by John Green...as the site proclaims, 'Join host John Green as he makes a rapid trek through everything you really need to know about science, pop culture, and history.  Check back every Wednesday for a new episode of the Mental Floss List Show!'

4. Lists - list for every occasion. Examples of lists include '30 of the Best Parents in Literature',

5. Quizzes - again, a quiz for every occasion.  Examples of quizzes include 'A Simpsons Guest Star Quiz', 'Ikea or Cheese?' or 'The Name Behind the Initial'.

So there you have it...a fun, tongue-in-cheek entertaining, pseudo-educational website.  Did I mention that Mental Floss is fun?   

Enjoy the site!

Regards, 
Stu

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

List Time

Hi All,

Guess what? It is raining...again. Sigh. This weather is just too much. Spring should be here by the calendar, but by the weather outside it seems like it is late Winter. Enough already!

That being said, I like lists. I've always liked world records. Or at least tables that discuss the 'biggest', 'fastest', 'longest', 'heaviest', etc...

A few months ago (click here for the link to the 2/15/11 post on World Records) I posted a blog entry - which became a very popular on world records. I'd like to update that particularly interesting entry with todays' entry.

I was looking for a website that discusses records and lists and tables...I found the site 'Lists of Bests' and you can find the site by clicking on this link.

What makes this site so interesting you might ask? Indeed...you can get 'Best Of' lists for 'Books', 'Music', 'Movies', 'Places', 'People', 'Award Lists', 'Definitive Lists', 'Personal Lists', and, finally, 'Bests Lists'. Whew, that is quite a mouthful of lists, eh? Click on any of the topics listed above and you'll link to that particular list.

Enjoy the list fun!
Stu

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